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I'm a far left authoritarian. Often dealt with people randomly assigning views to me, basing off the idea that everyone more or less close on the political spectrum shares the same values. So now I want to explain what exactly this means for me.
First off, why far left? I don't associate with any consistent leftist movements, I'm not the type of a person to call to “eat the rich” or “punch a nazi”, I don't go around talking about revolution. The reason why I'm de facto far left is that I believe in the inevitable collapse of capitalism as an economical system and its replacement with more suitable models. Market relations fail a whole lot in the post industrial era, as more and more products exist in online sharable form, more and more people claim public property. The internet is the force that will kill the market. I see my duty here as someone who observes, warns, and tries to make the change less drastic and less harmful. Socialism isn't a utopia, it's an inevitability.
I'm also an authoritarian, despite growing disgust for all current governments and laws. My reasoning is that I don't believe freedom is possible. Every society can offer only two models: the dictate of the state or the dictate of the individual. The former needs no explanation, and the latter happens when a stronger person (e.g, a parent) establishes and abuses power over a weaker one. In a stateless, truly anarchist society such occasions would be frequent. And any attempt to regulate it, whether by elected representatives, milicia, etc, would be reinvention of the government. Making the choice between two unsafe and abusive situations is tough, but I believe that it's better to have a system. People shouldn't have the right to ruin each other's lives by things like domestic abuse, denying medication, and other things that are too common in places where the government doesn't consider necessary to intrude in people's private lives.
So my ideal of the world's further development includes first going through the stage of authoritarian socialism, which will level out the differences in people's well being, and then communism, possibly not authoritarian, but existing on a whole new social step. I believe in manipulation on human nature to make people more accustomed to altruistically co existing in the collective.
As for the stereotypes that usually go with being far left, I barely fit in. I'm not pro censorship and not pro echo chamber, I don't hate sex, don't support dictators, dead or alive. But in the long run, I'm probably more left than everyone who the society sees as “far left”.
First off, why far left? I don't associate with any consistent leftist movements, I'm not the type of a person to call to “eat the rich” or “punch a nazi”, I don't go around talking about revolution. The reason why I'm de facto far left is that I believe in the inevitable collapse of capitalism as an economical system and its replacement with more suitable models. Market relations fail a whole lot in the post industrial era, as more and more products exist in online sharable form, more and more people claim public property. The internet is the force that will kill the market. I see my duty here as someone who observes, warns, and tries to make the change less drastic and less harmful. Socialism isn't a utopia, it's an inevitability.
I'm also an authoritarian, despite growing disgust for all current governments and laws. My reasoning is that I don't believe freedom is possible. Every society can offer only two models: the dictate of the state or the dictate of the individual. The former needs no explanation, and the latter happens when a stronger person (e.g, a parent) establishes and abuses power over a weaker one. In a stateless, truly anarchist society such occasions would be frequent. And any attempt to regulate it, whether by elected representatives, milicia, etc, would be reinvention of the government. Making the choice between two unsafe and abusive situations is tough, but I believe that it's better to have a system. People shouldn't have the right to ruin each other's lives by things like domestic abuse, denying medication, and other things that are too common in places where the government doesn't consider necessary to intrude in people's private lives.
So my ideal of the world's further development includes first going through the stage of authoritarian socialism, which will level out the differences in people's well being, and then communism, possibly not authoritarian, but existing on a whole new social step. I believe in manipulation on human nature to make people more accustomed to altruistically co existing in the collective.
As for the stereotypes that usually go with being far left, I barely fit in. I'm not pro censorship and not pro echo chamber, I don't hate sex, don't support dictators, dead or alive. But in the long run, I'm probably more left than everyone who the society sees as “far left”.
